Emergency department crowding in California: a silent killer?

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Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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3. Evaluation of problems arising in emergency services from the perspectives of medical and criminal law: The example of Türkiye.Heliyon · 2024
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4. Impact of increased reimbursement for ambulance transportation on hospital acceptance in Japan: a difference-in-difference study.BMJ open · 2023
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5. Emergency Department Overcrowding: Understanding the Factors to Find Corresponding Solutions.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022
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6. Optimizing the workforce: a proposal to improve regionalization of care and emergency preparedness by broader integration of pediatric emergency physicians certified by the American Board of Pediatrics.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2020
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7. Voluntary Medical Incident Reporting Tool to Improve Physician Reporting of Medical Errors in an Emergency Department.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2015
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8. Emergency Department Crowding and Outcomes After Emergency Department Discharge.Annals of emergency medicine · 2015
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9. The probability of patients being admitted from the emergency department is negatively correlated to in-hospital bed occupancy - a registry study.International journal of emergency medicine · 2014
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Corrections and comments

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  Effect of emergency department crowding on outcomes of admitted patients.2013

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